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PhD student Rober Singh from MPIA in Heidelberg has been awarded one of this years Ernst Patzer Prizes for one of the best refereed publications by a young scientist among the astronomical institutes in Heidelberg, Germany (MPIA / ZAH). The paper is entitled "The nature of LINER galaxies" and has been published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics (Singh et al., 2013, A&A, 558, 43).

We present the Color-Magnitude diagram of 151 galaxies observed by CALIFA. For each galaxy it is shown
a true-color image created using the B, V and R-band reconstructed images extracted from the CALIFA
datacubes:

Funding is available for a student with EU nationality to undertake a PhD at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Dr. Vivienne Wild, starting September 2012.

The project will involve the combined analysis of hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy mergers and observational datasets - focusing either on detailed observations of a small number of systems provided by CALIFA, or on the statistical samples provided by the GAMA survey http://www.gama-survey.org/ or, depending on the specific interests of the student.